Sensors and Intuitors
I was on a message board where someone was recently expounding about “sensors” and “intuitors” again. It’s painful for me to witness such misunderstandings, which are so commonly seen on the internet.
Here’s what I posted in reply:
I submit to you that there is No Such Thing as a “sensor” or an “intuitor.” Moreover, both labels are insulting, just as it is insulting to call someone by all those other negative labels: jerry, chink, nigger, jap, etc.
We all use all 8 of the processes — we ALL have the full range of human experience. While you may have a *preference* for iNtuiting, your life doesn’t work effectively when you neglect sensing for very long. And vice-versa that someone with a *preference* for Sensing will discover their life doesn’t work effectively when they neglect iNtuiting for very long.
AND (take note!) as we develop and mature, we are drawn more and more to use our less-preferred functions. INtuiting gives way to Sensing coming much more into the fore; and Sensing gives way to iNuiting coming much more into the fore.
Using those labels as if we are static beings who don’t shift, change, and develop — and INCREASE our CONSCIOUSNESS — misses the whole point of type entirely.
Stop thinking of them as labels — start thinking of them as muscles that you exercise or don’t — and that will get you closer to the intended meaning of type.
-Vicky Jo 
I coach people to identify and develop their natural personality strengths in order to maximize their potential.
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Thank you! Thank you!!!
I totally agree that type preferences are much more “elastic” than many people give them credit for. I actually can’t think of anyone I know reasonably well who fits neatly into one of those rigid “Sensor” or “Intuitor” boxes that so many people talk about.
You would think even the die-hard labelers would get bored with those rigid categories after a while and want it to become something more, but I guess at that point they just drop the whole subject and move on. Kind of a pity. Along with the whole “owning your own shadow” stuff, it’s one of the best tools I’ve seen for helping me understand where I can trust my instincts and where I need to grow, and also how I can demonstrate love to others in a way that honors them instead of forces them to temporarily have to think like me in order to appreciate what I’m doing.
Sarah